SPACED

Spaced show flyer, a colourful collage with grey figure of a head in the centre and magazine cut out letters spelling Spaced

SPACED Zine and online performance,

DAREBIN FUSE FESTIVAL 2021


The Waiting Room Arts Company brings you Spaced, a sought-after Zine and Digital Zine performance as part of Darebin Arts Centre’s Fuse Festival in September 2021. Australian Artists Jessica Kapuscinski-Evans, Chelle Destefano, Andy Jackson, Alex Creece, Liel Bridgford, Lauren Rosenberg, and Stevie (Stephanie Russell- Farnham) collaborate to create art that tackle the taboo subjects within Disability and Mental Health, with creative facilitation by Jess Kapuscinski-Evans and Milly Cooper.

Spaced is a cry for solidarity between members of the disability community and those who identify as D/deaf. It gets deep and meaningful about mental illness and physical impairment. It tackles all the forbidden subjects like religion, advocacy and curing disabilities. It asks questions like that funny one: does art makes you mentally ill or do you have to be mentally ill to make art?

Spaced is one of many projects to come that are works of art that Jess wished she knew about as a kid, but didn’t because of the mythology and stigma around being D/deaf and/or disabled and mentally ill. It unites live performance, visual art, dance, the online and the old-fashioned printed word. It brings together emerging and established artists with different experiences of disability who also come from other marginalised communities, to celebrate the many voices that exist in our society.

Spaced celebrates our whole selves; Spaced is for the children and young people who crave to see their experiences and bodies reflected in our literature and live streams.

Thank you to City of Darebin for funding Spaced and programming us in Fuse Festival. 

The Zine was available in multiple alternative formats.